• Published 21:44 29.09.09
  • Latest update 22:26 29.09.09

Skull piece thought to be Hitler's is actually from woman

Collection of Hitler artificats preserved by Soviets after 1945 suicide re-examined for new documentary.

By The Associated Press Tags: Hitler Israel news

DNA taken from a skull thought to be Nazi chancellor Adolf Hitler's shows the bone fragment came from a woman, a University of Connecticut scientist said on Tuesday.

Professor Linda Strausbaugh did say, however, that some of the blood taken from the couch where Hitler reportedly shot himself did come from a man.

The section of a cranium is part of a collection of Hitler artifacts preserved by Soviet intelligence in the months after Hitler and Eva Braun reportedly committed suicide in a Berlin bunker in 1945.

Strausbaugh and Connecticut archaeologist Nick Bellantoni were asked to examine the samples for a History Channel documentary.

Two other researchers were able to extract DNA to make the findings, Strausbaugh said. Nothing they found challenges the conclusion that Hitler died in the bunker, she added.

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